How Naughty Dog Fit Crash Bandicoot into 2MB of RAM on the PS1

Re:How Naughty Dog Fit Crash Bandicoot into 2MB of RAM on th... by zelos on Thursday June 18, 2015 @10:15AM (#9738613)

Embedded yes, but modern mobile is miles away from this. ~1GHz dual core, triple issue out-of-order CPU with 512MB-1GB RAM and maybe 10-20GB storage? That was a reasonable desktop PC not that many years ago.

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Re:How Naughty Dog Fit Crash Bandicoot into 2MB of RAM on th... by CrLf on Thursday June 18, 2015 @11:22AM (#9739113)

Yet we have basic apps like the phone app stuttering on such "high-end" hardware.

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Re:How Naughty Dog Fit Crash Bandicoot into 2MB of RAM on th... by oldmanjay on Thursday June 18, 2015 @11:49AM (#9739348)

Is your point something interesting or are you just snarkily pointing out that perfection has not yet been attained?

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Re:How Naughty Dog Fit Crash Bandicoot into 2MB of RAM on th... by pjmlp on Thursday June 18, 2015 @12:37PM (#9739790)

I guess the OP is referring to the code quality of said apps.

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